Aquina Blog

A recent article on Monster asks, are you a healthcare professional who's feeling anything but merry about working yet another holiday shift? Healthcare veterans offer tips on how to banish your inner grinch and make the most of another holiday on the job.

Healthcare Finance reports, Hospital and health system consolidation will continue to build, giving the delivery system a significant makeover during the next decade, according to Health Care 2020: Consolidation, a new report published by the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Over that time, healthcare organizations will be challenged to prove that the changing landscape actually improves value to consumers.

A recent report conducted by the Kauffman Foundation contains some positive and negative indicators for the American small business owner. The report noted,

Considering a loan for your healthcare business?  Finding a loan to fit your individual needs can be a daunting task.  Please view this replay of our recent webinar and learn more about the various options that are available and what to expect from the process.

On this webinar, experts from Provider Web Capital discuss:

• Ways to improve your experience with banks and alternative lenders

• What is typically required in the applications process

• The different types of financing that is available for business just like yours.

Click here to view the webinar.  The password for this replay is: Provider1 

An informative article regarding the challenges minority- owned businesses face was recently published on business.com. According to Dan Blacharski, since the collapse of the housing market in 2008-2009, minorities in the U.S. have been hit disproportionately hard by lenders who are giving mortgages only to the strongest borrowers. The housing crash continues to have repercussions in the minority-owned small business community, for which business loans are increasingly unavailable.

An article recently published in Healthcare Finance states, for Kelly Kjelstrom, plugging the gaps in mental health care can mean something as simple as a late-night taco and a friendly chat.

In an article written this month on business.com Dan Blacharski reports, “The housing crash of 2008-2009 continues to have repercussions in the minority-owned small business community, for which business loans are increasingly unavailable. Frequently, these groups of excluded borrowers refer to non-white, non-immigrant citizens with marginal to severe credit woes. For minority business owners, that adds up to roughly 4.1 million companies with little or no access to business credit.” Blacharski goes on to say,

According to Modern Healthcare, Physicians have pledged to retire or leave Medicare as a result of burdens placed on them by the recently finalized payment rule. That could spur Republicans, soon to be fully in charge of the government, to slow federal value-based payment efforts.

A recent article published on Forbes states, what does a Trump presidency mean for small business? Hard to say. Unlike Hillary Clinton, Trump didn’t go out of his way to reach small business owners. And unlike Clinton, Trump ran a campaign more concerned with principles than specific policies. He was even willing to rearrange principles when politics demanded it.

According to The New York Times, Many people have to wait too long to see a doctor. And it could get worse. If, as many people believe, we have a shortage of doctors in the United States, then it follows that we can fix this only by training and hiring more physicians.